I have some nephews that would love a cake like this. They go scorpion hunting with their dad several evenings a week. They take a blacklight out in the night and look for the "glow-in-the-dark" creatures.

I'm thinking a coat hanger or wire left over from your remodel with Rice Krispie treats. You have to have something sturdy in there for that top curve, and I can't think of anything edible that would hold a curve like that by itself. I would definitely nominate you for a cake challenge on Food Network!

That's a cool cake...reminds me of my childhood... my Mom always attempted to fulfill our individual requests for our cakes. One year my youngest brother asked for Baked Alaska, and she DID it!!!!!!!!! The tail I will leave to all of these other obviously seasoned bakers!

Awesome cake! I have the task of making a Spiderman cake for my son's birthday in March. That should be interesting. I may know how to cook and bake but I'm not an artist. Can Spiderman be a stick figure?

Okay okay I'll spill the beans. I figure I ought to fess up before Jenn at Family Musings rats me out :)

I initially made the tail with a giant Rice Krispie treat but I left it sitting to harden and it shifted and didn't harden in the right direct.

So . . . I went to zap it in the microwave to soften it up a bit when I got distracted and zapped too long so that it was WAY too soft.

By then I was under time pressure so I decided to bag the whole thing and grab some aluminum foil. So there it is, the tail is *officially* aluminum foil. The rest is real but chewing on the tail would be bad.

well, in that you are alaskan and all, I would have to guess that you gathered up some old moose antlers laying around in the yard from that moose that ate up your new imported jasmine bush....and stuck that in the scorpions back-side.

My thoughts exactly when I saw the picture "how did she make that tail", then can you eat it?! Let's see what could be in there? Fondant, playdough (it is edible), a long licorice stick,mmmmmmm I give up....

okay, living with more than my fair share of scorpions, they kind of freak me out, but I will be among those who think "that is the coolest scorpion cake I have EVER seen, and you are SUCH a cool mom!" Even my son, who passed by as i pulled up the picture, thought it was GREAT, and he is 8! you got some of the neatest responses. Great bunch of readers, here. :-) and, I would not have guessed Rice Krispies, I never knew it was a big thing to use in baking. hmmmm... But my guess was WAY off. I would have said Twizzlers tied together and one hanging a big further out to make almost a point. Yup, bad guess, but it was different. And, I would have totally done the SAME thing with the foil instead. actually, where in the world did you get the idea from. it is SPECTACULAR and i think i could TOTALLY use it somewhere down the road. I can NEVER get my icing/frosting right. did you make it from scratch? Any suggestions on how to make it correctly? Anyhow, Great Job, MOM!!! Love your blog. So many different things to see, so much to peek the interest. :-)

Thank you for commenting on my blog. Hope your son had a happy b'day...mine got an ear infection which meant a not-so-happy b'day. (At least he's small enough we can just "pretend" his b'day is on a day when he's feeling 100%)

I've been following here for awhile. The cake thing caught my attention. Though, I have several ideas of my own how I'd do this myself (I pride myself in making my children's and friend's children's fantasy cakes), but the rice krispie thing was a new idea to me.

it's quite heartening that you went to the foil at a last minute save! And, quite the smooth frosting job!

Way to go, Mrs. Scribbit! Ah, the memories when your boys are grown with kids of their own and sharing the "magic" of their Mom!

Would love to know how you made this, it would be perfect for my scouts, our troop is dong an egyptian theme for blue and gold and a scorpion cake was one of the things they mentioned that they wanted to do.